[CelticJourney]

Soccer obsessed family enjoying our favorite time of year (most years...it's like snow here, some years you get it some years your don't) - world tournament season.

I'm having trouble this year because I'm not connecting with the US team. Keep in mind I'm old enough to have enjoyed the '99 team. They were full of heart, humor and sisterhood. Hamm, Overbeck, Fawdy, Ackers!!, etc, etc. You wanted to invite them all to dinner and just enjoy their company.

First, IMO, this group has been tainted by Rapinoe's politics Even ESPN has learned this lesson. We don't want politics in our sports - we need a BREAK. Last night's game made me very uncomfortable. Yes, you play to win and rack up all the goals you can because of goal differential, but the way they celebrated over and over and over seemed like gloating. Like a dad who beat his middle school son at basketball and thinks its a big achievement .... it made them look petty. Contrast the on the field reaction to coach Jill Ellis whose reaction was 'that's great! Exactly what I expect from the first ranked team playing one of the bottom ranked team. You have met expectation.' Not ', we are AMAZING!!!!!'

I'm rooting for Scotland...they are the women's equivalent to Iceland for the men's competition. They need me.